Yaïr Golan, former high ranking of the Israeli army, launched an implacable accusation against his own country, evoking deliberate murders of Palestinian children and a drift towards an apartheid regime.
Yaïr Golan, former general of Tsahal and figure of the Israeli left, said what can dare to say out loud: “A healthy state does not kill babies for pleasure”.
These words, of rare violence, directly target Israeli military policy in the occupied Palestinian territories. Golan does not speak as an average militant. He directed troops, given the battlefields, known the intimacy of power. And today, he sounds the alarm: Israel is changing in a moral abyss.
For the former soldier, Israel no longer made war to defend himself, but to punish, humiliate, crush. He evokes an assumed shift towards state crime, a system of domination which, according to him, recalls South Africa from apartheid.
We have a government of revenge, without morality, which no longer believes in humans. We have lost our soul, ”he says.
Golan’s accusations find an echo in overwhelming data: thousands of Palestinian children killed, sprayed houses, bombed hospitals. Far from the official speeches on the fight against “terrorism”, the figures of the United Nations, B’tselem or even doctors without borders reveal a terrifying reality: whole families striped from the map, babies mowed by bombs.
On networks, images circulate that no human being should see. Mutilated children. Mothers in tears holding lifeless bodies. And then, this symbol of impunity: t-shirts of Israeli soldiers bearing the cynical mention “1 shot, 2 kills”, targeting a pregnant woman.
In Israel, this speaking caused an uproar. But it also resonates as a historical warning, launched by a man of the system, who refuses to endorse the horror.
“We are losing our humanity. And with it, our future ”. The message is clear: if Israel continues to confuse security and barbarism, it risks not only international isolation, but also the moral bankruptcy of a nation which wanted a refuge for the persecuted.
